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New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

The debut image from the Inouye telescope's Visible Tunable Filter (VTF) camera shows a sunspot cluster many times larger than the continental United States (Image credit: VTF/KIS/NSF/NSO/AURA) VTF's ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense within the context of a major merger." ...

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By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

Why it matters: University of Utah astronomers have used Hubble's images to find new (ish) black holes. How it works: When it ...

It's a wake-up call. Amazingly, even though the spiral galaxy has been profoundly contorted, you can still see bright star clusters in the galaxy's stretched spiral arms. An Einstein ring recently ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events ever observed in the universe. These powerful outbursts can shine a ...

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...